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Corporate Overview
Wavefront Energy and Environmental Services Inc. – originally established in
1997 under the name PE-TECH Inc. – develops, markets and licenses
proprietary technologies in the energy and environmental sectors. The
company was formed to bring a game-changing technology to these sectors,
which it has done with its proprietary Powerwave injection process for oil
recovery and its Primawave process for environmental applications.
Energy
Traditional extraction methods typically result in 10-20 percent
recovery, meaning that roughly 80 percent of the oil remains in the ground.
Wavefront uses its Powerwave technology to extract oil from low or
non-producing wells in the United States and Canada, thereby helping North
America to produce more domestic oil by squeezing more oil out of existing
sources. The Powerwave process has been put to use on a wide range of well
applications ranging from production stimulation to secondary recovery.
Customers ranging from small independents to mid-size to major operators
have used Powerwave effectively to increase production levels. In some
cases, the Powerwave process has helped to increase individual well
production by greater than 1,000 percent and secondary field recovery of
greater than 30 percent.
Environmental
In the environmental sector, Wavefront’s Primawave process is a simple
and cost-effective solution used to enhance the effectiveness of
pump-and-treat and in-situ (in-ground) chemical oxidation (ISCO)
applications, which are used to remove harmful chemicals from contaminated
groundwater. Utilizing the same scientific principles as the Powerwave
process, Primawave has been adapted to meet the unique requirements of the
environmental remediation market. By pulsing injection fluid through a
formation, Primawave reduces the use of preferential flow paths used by in
situ remedies, allowing the remedies to reach a larger area and providing a
more uniform distribution of these remedies throughout the formation.
Expertise
An additional key to Wavefront’s success is the expertise of its
research and development team. PhD-level physicists work on the rigorous
theory behind Powerwave and Primawave and continually develop powerful
reservoir models that incorporate the physics of the two processes and allow
Wavefront to predict possible outcomes of Powerwave and Primawave
implementations.
Wavefront is headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
